India: Hustler's Reward

In centuries past, Bombay was considered so
unhealthy that "two monsoons were the life of a man." Bombay is still
relatively dangerous to life and limb, but what its citizens feared
last week was not malarial fever or dengue but hurtling autos,
gangsters, and commuter trains so jampacked that festoons of passengers
hang perilously from the doors. "What can we do?" shrugs Mayor
Eshakbhai Bandookwala, resplendent in a red turban and seated behind a
huge desk topped with black glass. "This city is growing; it leads
India. Everybody wants to come here...